American Experience
Season 5 Episode 20 - Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." The San Francisco Museum built a Yahi house where audiences could watch Ishi make arrowheads and shoot bows. Ishi went to the theater and received invitations of marriage. But contact would bring him terrible physical and psychological consequences.
Episodes in Season 5
1
The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61
55 min
2
The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80
55 min
3
The Donner Party
55 min
4
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
55 min
5
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
55 min
6
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
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7
If You Knew Sousa
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8
Simple Justice
55 min
9
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
55 min
10
Sit Down And Fight
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11
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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12
Goin' Back to T-Town
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20
Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
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